Comments on Marco Rubio leads contraception-religion-ObamaCare battle with billTypePad2012-01-31T18:22:39ZMiami Heraldhttp://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/tag:typepad.com,2003:http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/01/marco-rubio-leads-contraception-religion-obamacare-battle-with-bill/comments/atom.xml/Cat commented on 'Marco Rubio leads contraception-religion-ObamaCare battle with bill'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451b26169e2016761c32d3d970b2012-02-06T00:20:59Z2012-02-06T00:20:59ZCatJim, You are looking at this all wrong. This is not a partisan issue. It is not about birth control....<p>Jim, You are looking at this all wrong. This is not a partisan issue. It is not about birth control. It is not about healthcare. It is not about abortion. This is about one thing: religious liberties. This law violates the religious beliefs of millions of people who believe that birthcontrol, sterilization and morning after pill is stopping a life and therefore murder. This law forces those people to violate their conciences and put money into insurance systems for their employees and provide those services that they believe is murder. Up to this point, those religious universities, schools, churches and hospitals were able to provide insurance for their employees and services for their patients/students that did not involve what they consider murder. The first amendment of our Constitution gives those people the right to believe that it is murder and gives them the right to follow their concience in avoiding contributing to that murder. It starts with contraception, then goes to abortion, then to our other first amendment rights (speech, assembly, petition our government, and then press/media) then goes our second amendment rights to protect ourselves and our effects by keeping and carrying guns, then down the line. Again, this is not about birth control. This is about your right to not be forced by the government to participate in or contribute to something that you believe will send your soul to hell, right or wrong in that belief. We must stand together on this issue even if we disagree with that specific belief (if we disagree) and must fight the intrusion of government into our religious beliefs. That is why we came to America to begin with. We must protect those liberties or we will regret not doing so. (BTW, the argument about bureaucracy is completely incredible considering Obamacare is the biggest bureaucratic nightmare that could have possibly ever been invented.) </p>Jim commented on 'Marco Rubio leads contraception-religion-ObamaCare battle with bill'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451b26169e2016761729018970b2012-02-01T01:28:01Z2012-02-01T01:28:01ZJimThe bill to force an exemption of religious organizations from being covered by insurance companies is a very bad idea....<p>The bill to force an exemption of religious organizations from being covered by insurance companies is a very bad idea. Nobody is or will be forced to take birth control pills or use condoms or be forced to do or not do anything. It only adds another layer of bureaucracy and useless laws and I thought the focus of the republican party was to get the government off of peoples backs. The current Health Care laws do not force anyone to have a CAT scan or rectal exams or any other medical procedure, or force anyone to use any birth control methods. He (and others like him) should keep their nose out of people&#39;s rights to pick the medical options they want to use, regardless of their religious beliefs. Who will pay for monitoring the insurance companies compliance with this bill? Do you want to pay for this out of your pocket? He should quit the grand-standing and get to work solving our nations problems instead of increasing the division within our nation.</p>Si commented on 'Marco Rubio leads contraception-religion-ObamaCare battle with bill'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451b26169e20167616ffd3a970b2012-01-31T21:56:58Z2012-01-31T21:56:58ZSiGood for him!<p>Good for him!</p>